The avant-garde dancer Guru Gopinath (1908-1987) was an ambassador of Kathakali, who believed that the dance-theatre could be popularised only if it is staged in a manner intelligible to the common ...

Mario Barzaghi won the best actor prize at the META awards in March for playing the title role in a kathakali adaptation of ‘The Old Man and the Sea’.

It was a day of mourning: a leading light in the cultural arena, veteran singer Kalim Sharafi, had passed away earlier. But the show must go on, that is the way of the world. As a finale to a recent ...

The demise of Kalamandalam Hari R. Nair, at the age of 48, cuts short the journey of a celebrated Kathakali performer ...

Underscoring the message of conserving the Nila, Dr Pazhoor Damodaran performed `Kanninakkanandam' from Dakshayagam.

India is famous for its rich cultural heritage and classical dance forms are one of its most treasured artistic traditions.

Other class dance forms in India are Bharatanatyam from Tamil Nadu, Kathak from Uttar Pradesh, and Kuchipudi from Andhra Pradesh. Who is the father of Kathakali? The father of kathakali is ...

K.P. Kunhiraman, one of the world's foremost artists of Indian kathakali dance, was to be honored - along with his wife, Katherine - Saturday at the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. But on ...

Ancient epics are full of grisly deeds. In “Beowulf,” the hero yanks Grendel’s arm off and hangs it, dripping, from the rafters of the mead hall. In the Iliad, Achilles, after killing Hector, attaches ...

We are at Nalanda Dance Research Centre in Juhu, the 50-year-old institute founded by classical dancer Kanak Rele (79). Rele is under the weather and recovering from a foot surgery. Yet she makes it a ...